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Poland’s Janus Face On Ukraine Is Untenable

The European Union and representatives of countries in the Indo-Pacific region are meeting in Brussels for the fourth ministerial forum, which brings together around 70 participants from EU institutions and member states
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Both Trump And Malaysia's Role Are Crucial For Thai-Cambodia Conflict

The tensions that erupted again at the Thailand–Cambodia border and the action by Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to suspend the agreement that was signed during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit symbolised the challenges in the peace process and also the role of external powers, especially Malaysia and the U.S.
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US Strategic Sequencing Is Not Going To Fool Anyone

Washington’s foreign policy establishment has a new obsession: “strategic sequencing.” The idea, now whispered in think-tank corridors and echoed in NATO planning circles, is deceptively simple
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Global South Finds Voice In Emerging World Order Of Equality And Mutual Respect

A new multipolar world order based on multilateralism, equality and mutual respect is taking shape, empowering countries of the Global South and others outside the traditional Western-dominated structure allowing these nations to finally chart their own path on their own terms
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Trump’s Deterrent Factor and ASEAN’s Limited Hand in Thailand-Cambodia Discord

The Thailand-Cambodia conflict transcends the current ASEAN mechanism and capacity alone to deter or manage, seeing how its historical, contextual and nationalistic multi-factorial setting has shaped the spectrum of the conflict that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) alone is not able to fully resolve
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Russia Steps Up ASEAN Engagement As Multipolar World Emerges

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: As the collective West steps up its confrontational foreign policy against its perceived rivals, Russia is moving forward with a constructive agenda through greater engagement with its partners in the Asia-Pacific, particularly with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), according to Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko.
 
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ASEAN Statement On South China Sea: The Right Step Forward

MANILA. Philippines: In what is seen by many as an unprecedented move, the foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) issued a stand-alone statement expressing concern about the developments in the South China Sea and reaffirming “the shared commitment to maintaining and promoting peace, security and stability in the region” where tension has been growing over conflicting claims in the South China Sea.
 
 
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Asia-Pacific Region Eyes Cooperation With Russia Despite Western Pressure

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: The system of a unipolar world order finally ceased to exist after Russia’s decisive actions to defend its national interests and protect Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine, and the adherents of the collapsed world order, among which the countries of the collective West play a key role, began to gradually lose their allies in Asia.
 
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How China is driving Malaysia out of the South China Sea

KOTA KINABALU: China’s illegal claims over the South China Sea has put it in a collision course not only with other Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) claimants including the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei but the West, which seeks to maintain free and open sea lanes under its “freedom of navigation” doctrine.
 
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Malaysia Must Take Threat Of Malign Foreign Influence Seriously

KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia: There is a renewed interest in the influence operations being conducted among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), particularly in what is perceived to be the long reach of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in vulnerable countries like Malaysia.
 
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